Bridge dreams
Jan. 18th, 2008 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempike[Poll #1123308]
Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams, Book IV, quoted by Foucault:
"If a woman or a handsome youth dream they turn into a bridge, they will become prostitutes and allow many to go over them." I merely wanted to see how many of my flist were going to become prostitutes.
Artemidorus as summarised by Foucault is quite great. If you are a woman and dream of having sex with a man, "the dream is favourable in every case, for it accords with the natural and social roles of women." If you are a man and have this dream (and for Artemidorus this means you dream of being penetrated), then it's only a good thing if the man fucking you is older and richer than you. It's only a good thing for a man to dream of having sex with his daughter if his daughter is richer than him.
All positions other than missionary "have been discovered by yielding to wantonness and licentiousness". Apparently this is a bad thing. Also bad: the five ways of deviating from nature in sexual relations.
1. relations with gods
2. relations with animals
3. relations with corpses
4. relations with oneself (penetrating oneself rather than manual masturbation)
4. relations between women
So now we know.
Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams, Book IV, quoted by Foucault:
"If a woman or a handsome youth dream they turn into a bridge, they will become prostitutes and allow many to go over them." I merely wanted to see how many of my flist were going to become prostitutes.
Artemidorus as summarised by Foucault is quite great. If you are a woman and dream of having sex with a man, "the dream is favourable in every case, for it accords with the natural and social roles of women." If you are a man and have this dream (and for Artemidorus this means you dream of being penetrated), then it's only a good thing if the man fucking you is older and richer than you. It's only a good thing for a man to dream of having sex with his daughter if his daughter is richer than him.
All positions other than missionary "have been discovered by yielding to wantonness and licentiousness". Apparently this is a bad thing. Also bad: the five ways of deviating from nature in sexual relations.
1. relations with gods
2. relations with animals
3. relations with corpses
4. relations with oneself (penetrating oneself rather than manual masturbation)
4. relations between women
So now we know.
